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Ian Gillan is doing a media blitz around Europe for his new solo album One Eye To Morocco. Tonight, January 26, he will appear on Capital Radio in Italy. You can listen to it online (if you’re lucky that is, I got an error message in Italian).
Over the next two weeks his promo tour will also take him to Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris, Warsaw, Prague and Hamburg. We will post details when (and if) we get them.
Thanks to Drew Thompson and Mirko for the info.
There is a new live Deep Purple DVD scheduled for release on February 10. It’s called “Live 1974 (TV Recordings)” and the label press release claims that
[…] the 55-minute disc features footage of “DEEP PURPLE performing for the TV cameras in 1974 in Germany, originally broadcast in Argentina. […]
Track listing:
Burn
Might Just Take Your Life
Mistreated
Smoke On The Water
You Fool No One
The Mule
Space Truckin’
Now, we don’t want to sound all doom and gloom before we have the actual product, but several things make us very, very sceptical.
Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the info.
A review of the Don Airey’s show in Zoetermeer on January 22 and a brief interview with the man himself apears on the Here Comes The Flood blog:
Any chance of Deep Purple recording one of your songs on a new studio album?
I don’t know. I contributed a lot to the last one, Rapture of the Deep. I did my bit and I was quite pleased with that. We will be recording again. There are some plans for that.And a follow-up for your solo album?
I promised Ed van Zijl that there will be some guest appearances on the new one. I can’t give you any names, though.
Thanks to Hans Werksman for letting us know.
Terry Bezer writes in the Classic Rock Magazine blog:
Classic Rock needs your help in selecting rock’s greatest singers and best-loved voices.
Britain’s best rock magazine is putting together a list of the singers that changed our lives: the belters, the screamers, the warblers, shriekers, and crooners that helped define the music we know and love, be it prog or punk, metal or melodic rock, grunge, garage rock or plain old rawk.
Who are the singers you love? Who are the greatest at delivering live – and who are the most disappointing? Who has the greatest range, the most unique voice – who delivered rock’s greatest vocal performances and what are they?
Leave your comments below – the best may be used in the magazine and the top 5 best comments (as chosen by the magazine team) will receive a Classic Rock goody bag.
You all know what to do. If interested, leave comments in their blog. I doubt they read ours.
Thanks to Dave Hodgkinson for the info.
Glenn Hughes was interviewed by Eric Blair at the NAMM, which was held January 15-18, 2009 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Glenn talks about his plans, his life, the F.U.N.K album, and the much discussed here and elsewhere Mk3 reunion, which he says is definitely not going to happen this year.
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A 12-track list for Ian Gillan’s forthcoming solo album One Eye To Morocco has been published on Amazon Germany with a release date of March 6.
No cover is shown.
1. One Eye To Morocco
2. No Lotion For That
3. Don’t Stop
4. Change My Ways
5. Girl Goes To Show
6. Better Days
7. Deal With It
8. Ultimate Groove
9. The Sky Is Falling Down
10. Texas State Of Mind
11. It Would Be Nice
12. Always The Traveller
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson.
Don Airey is wrapping up his solo tour of Europe that was rescheduled from last September. On January 20 he and his band have performed in Munich. Here’s some video evidence from the act.
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Greg Prato continues promotion of his new book Touched by Magic: The Tommy Bolin Story. He will appear with an interview in the Electric Ballroom show on New Jersey radio station 95.9 WRAT FM this coming Sunday, January 25 at 10 am EST. WRAT says they broadcast over the Internet (see their website), but it doesn’t appear to be working in our heck of the woods.
Thanks to Blabbermouth.net for the info.
Gary Moore, Ian Paice, Don Airey and Neil Murray performing Hurricane in 1982 at the Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, Germany.
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Czech media reports that Deep Purple will play at the opening ceremony for the World Championship in Nordic skiing. The championship opens on February 18 at the Tipsport Arena in Liberec, Czech Republic. Deep Purple’s appearance was announced by Kateřina Neumannová, president of the local organizing committee, and so far is not confirmed by either the Deep Purple management or the International Ski Federation.
According to the Argentinian promoters, the next scheduled Purple concert will be on February 20 in Buenos Aires.
Thanks to czech-netz.com for the info.
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